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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






2. What is the function of vitamin C?






3. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






4. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






5. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






6. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






7. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






8. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






9. What does DASH stand for?






10. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






11. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






12. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






13. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






14. What foods have high quality protein?






15. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






16. How many calories/gram is protein?






17. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






18. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






19. Fats can lead to some medical problems






20. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






21. What are healthy sources of fats?






22. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






23. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






24. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






25. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






26. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






27. What is normal albumin levels?






28. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






29. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






30. What is the function of vitamin E?






31. What type of people need extra protein?






32. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






33. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






34. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






35. Where can you get more vitamin D?






36. What function is vitamin A?






37. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






38. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






39. When does BMR increase?






40. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






41. When does BMR decrease?






42. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






43. What is RDA of protein?






44. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






45. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






46. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






47. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






48. What is normal BMI?






49. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






50. The higher the BMR a client has --